Urban Design

Video Vancouver: Smaller House Initiative

Smaller houses on smaller lots could once again make housing affordable for young families, and at the same time provide suitable detached suites for...

Cartographically Speaking – Safety in Numbers: Why a Bike Lane in Kitsilano?

By Jen Cook & Holly Foxcroft In the heart of Kitsilano, a rumbling started to occur in reaction to the city project to create a safe link between the...

Playing in the Sandbox

The process of urban planning has always been a bit of a mystery to me and I don’t believe I am the only one to feel this way. The technical...

HVS Walking Tour: Granville Street’s 800 to 1200 Blocks, July 20th

Location: Meet outside Starbuck’s Coffee at Georgia & Granville (next to London Drugs). Time: Saturday, July 20th 10am – 12 pm Admission: $15.00...

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Lions Gate Bridge

Upcycled Urbanism on Granville: July 13, 2013

(Via Museum of Vancouver) Help transform Granville Street on Saturday, July 13, 2013! Upcycled Urbanism is a participatory project that invites...

PARKit Design Challenge

This past month, the City of Surrey unveiled the winners of PARKit, an ideas competition in which first prize was to design and build a pop-up park next...

Video Vancouver: Less Elbow Room

To get a sense of how America will pack more people into its cities, the Wall Street Journal heads north to Vancouver.

Studies on the West End – Connectivity/Walkability/Sense of Community

[Editor’s Note: Schools are the repository of ideas and experimentation. All too frequently, however, interesting and provocative work remains...

Video Vancouver: Children Have Lost the Freedom to Roam

Think of this Streetfacts chapter as a PSA about how, in just a few generations, we have tightly restricted American kids’ freedom to roam, play...

Video Vancouver: PWL Partnership – Our Story in Film

A video that captures our over 3 decades of the PWL Partnership‘s work contributing to the development of some of Vancouver’s great public...

Upcycle Urbanism Team Day – March 25

Ever wonder what was inside the old Port Mann Bridge? Ever wonder what it would look like if those insides where reimagined and used to transform a public...